The Minnesota Star Tribune explains:
Take Minnesota’s state bird, the loon, combine it with the “Star Wars” Rebel Alliance symbol, and the Rebel Loon is born.During Operation Metro Surge [the ICE invasion], Moorhead-based software engineer Bernardo Anderson felt inspired when he saw friends come together across the political spectrum.“I kept thinking about how this is a big coalition or alliance or some kind of group, that we’re all banding together to fight this,” said the 42-year-old Anderson. “Then, I remember ‘Star Wars’' Rebel Alliance, where they’re from different worlds and yet they come together to fight for a common cause.”Anderson anonymously released his Rebel Loon logo on Reddit on Jan. 19, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Since then, it has spread across Minnesota in countless formats as a symbol of the resistance — and people in Hawaii, Michigan, Ohio and other states have adapted it, replacing the loon with their own state bird.Even Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong sported a Rebel Loon sticker on his guitar during his Super Bowl LX performance. The symbol is meant to unite people under a common cause. Anderson released it with a Creative Commons Zero license, which allows anyone to use it and adapt it however they’d like.
For those unfamiliar with our magnificent state bird, the red eye is characteristic. The newer versions of the Rebel Loon logo add a stylistic North Star between the wingtips. For those who are not Star Wars enthusiasts, here is the Rebel Alliance logo.
And if you want to mock the loon as a fierce fighter, here's my report from 2020 of a loon killing a bald eagle while defending its nest: Loon-on-eagle haliacide. (For the TL;DR crowd, the killing was an underwater attack that punctured the eagle's chest/heart)

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